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About Mariajo Ilustrajo
Mariajo is a multi-award-winning Spanish author-illustrator based in the UK. Her debut book Flooded published in 2022 to widespread global acclaim: it was sold into 22 languages, won a score of prestigious literary prizes and received glowing international reviews. Her second book Lost (2023) was published to the same fanfare, with the brand new I Hate Love Books available now. Mariajo loves to cook and to draw, and fills dozens of sketchbooks with her daily scribbles. She lives with her partner, young daughter and their new puppy.
About I Hate Love Books
*Winner of the Klaus Flugge Prize for Illustration 2023*
From the award-winning creator of Flooded and Lost comes a magical story about the joy of discovering a connection with books for the very first time. This brightly illustrated adventure story is perfect for kids who claim to hate reading, as the enchanting narrative opens their eyes to a fantasy world created by words on a page.
In this spellbinding story, we meet a little girl excited for the end of term…
No more school! However, she’s given the very unreasonable task of reading a whole book over the holidays. A whole book? but she HATES books. Luckily, her sister takes her to the library and says she has just the thing.
Slowly, the little girl is drawn into a world of adventure inside her own imagination, for the very first time. Even the greyscale world starts to fill with colour as she is carried away in the story. A little fennec fox leads her to meet fairytale witches and creatures as they find ingredients to cast a special spell at the end of her book.
The little girl is dismayed to learn that this spell seemingly hasn’t changed a thing. However, the little fox points out that she is completely transformed: discovering the power of her imagination has changed her forever. This charming and engaging picture book shows children how wonderful books can really be, leaving them with a lifelong affinity for reading.
Discover adventure on every page and turn I Hate Books into I Love Books.